Memory managent: clarification

[affin]

Dear Guru's,


I need a final clarification about HPUX's memory management.
The question is: How can I get the free (and used) available RAM of a system?
I used command such as swapinfo -tma, vmstat and also sam but the numbers showed are not so reliable.

Any suggestion will be very appreciated.

Thanx
Alessandro

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

Look at

ftp://eh:spear9@hprc.external.hp.com/memory.htm

There are so many goodies in there its like christmas


Steve Steel

[Peter Godron]

Alessandro,
if you say the numbers shown are not so reliable, you must have a tool to know what the correct figures are, otherwise how do you know they are not correct?
You can find a number of prewritten specialist tools on the web, but the supplied tools swapinfo, vmstat and sam normally do the job sufficiently, as the figures for RAM free constantly change on a running system.
Regards

[affin]

thanx all the:

dmesg | grep Phys


way is overall the faster and realiable way.

[affin]

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